GM Melikset Khachiyan of California tied for first in the "A2" section of the Aeroflot Open (Moscow, February 16-25), with IM Alexandre Danin of Russia. Khachiyan scored 7/9 and scored an 2675 FIDE performance rating. Upon returning to L.A, Khachiyan plans to annotate his favorite game from Aeroflot on CLO, and said, "I haven't played that level of chess for a long time. It was one of the greatest results in my whole chess career." In his crucial penultimate game, he won against IM Mikhail Krylov. The game seemed level for some time, until White played the weakening 31.h4? allowing all of Khachiyan's pieces to leap into action.